If Week 2 was the Super Bowl, fine panic. It wasn't, calm down.

If Week 2 was the Super Bowl, fine panic. It wasn't, calm down.

The Cowboys got their tails handed to them Sunday against the Broncos; there’s no other way around it. The Cowboys were outmatched in every aspect of the game and deserved to walk away with the utter trouncing they received. Such is life in the NFL sometimes; even the best of teams slip up and have an off week. The New England Patriots even have off weeks sometimes, Week 1 being a prime example. Two weeks into the season is not time to press the panic button. The world needs to take a page out of Aaron Rodgers playbook and relax.

It is rare to see the Cowboys’ offensive line be completely dominated like that by an opposing defensive front. Naturally when it does happen, it raises concern but to say this is the first stage of failure is ridiculously premature. Just a few hours after the disaster in Denver, the Green Bay Packers slipped up in a big way against the Atlanta Falcons yet most everyone is able to resist the pressure to press the shiny, red button for now.

The Broncos have a rare defense where they can load up the box to stop the run and play single coverage against the outside receivers. The only way they can win like this is because of the talent they have at all levels of the defense; most teams around the NFL can’t get away with what Denver does because they simply do not have the right players to handle that kind of responsibility.

The good news for the Cowboys is they probably won’t play another team with that good of a defense all season; there are other good defenses but not quite to the level of what the Broncos have. Nonetheless, they need to play better if they want this season to go the way it’s supposed to.

Having a bad game isn’t important, what is important is how the Cowboys respond to it.

As they start to turn their heads to the Arizona Cardinals, the Cowboys must come back and respond to this embarrassment they suffered Sunday afternoon. Right now, this loss is like a snowflake, harmless and blowing in the wind. If the symptoms of what caused this loss continue to build up and this snowflake starts to build into a snowball rolling down the side of the mountain, that is when panic can ensue.

For now, any talk of Jason Garrett, Ezekiel Elliott, Dak Prescott and Dez Bryant is a waste of breath. All those people had a huge part in the Cowboys going 13-3 in 2016 so one bad performance shouldn’t erase all that progress. The real test will be on Monday Night Football when fans and critics have a chance to see their response to being blown out and humiliated.

For now, take a deep breath and relax. The Cowboys started 2014 and 2016 with a 1-1 record and were also completely embarrassed in the 2014 season opener by the 49ers. Things looked bad on Sunday but give Jason Garrett the chance to rally his team and give them a chance to respond on national television to what was a really bad day in the office Sunday against the Denver Broncos.

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